Fatawa Faqih e Millat

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Fatawa Faqih-e-Millat : Urdu, New,
2 Volumes within 1 Large Volume,
[A4] Hardback - 892 pages,
by Mufti Jalal al-Din Ahmad Amjadi [d.1421h],
Publ. by Akbar Book Depot.

Description :

Fatawa Faqih e Millat ; maroof Markaz-e-Tarbiyat-O-Ifta. The legal edicts (fatawa) of Huzur Faqih-e-Millat, Mufti Jalal al-Din Ahmad Amjadi, rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alayhi.

Zayr e Nigrani Janashin Faqih e Millat, Hadrat Allama Anwaar Muhammad Qadiri al-Amjadi.Tartib by Mufti Muhammad Abrar Barkati, and Mufti Ishtiaq Ahmad Amjadi, and by Mufti Muhammad Awais Qadiri Amjadi.

Shaykh Jalal al-Din Ahmad Amjadi :

He is Faqih al-Millah, al-Shaykh Mufti Jalal al-Din Ahmad al-Amjadi al-Hanafi, rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alayhi. He was born in Uttar Pradesh, India in 1933/1352AH into a religious family. Faqih al-Millah memorised the Holy Qur'an at the tender age of 10 and subsequently studied the Islamic sciences and disciplines under numerous scholars, specifically Persian literature and other elementary books on Islam under Shaykh 'Abd al-Ra'uf and Shaykh 'Abd al-Bari in Iltifatganj. He then went onto study the Dars al-Nizami curriculum in Nagpur under Shaykh Arshad al-Qadiri, rahimahullah, and graduated at the age of 19 years.

Fiqh al-Millah despite hardships continued his education and striving for further knowledge until he became one of the greatest scholars of his generation. He taught at many seminaries across India, including Madrasa Fayd al-Ulum, Madrasa Qadriyya al-Ridawiyya in Bhawapur, Basti as well as Dar al-Ulum Fayd al-Rasul. He started issuing Fatawa at the age of 24, and continued to do so for 25 years until his health deteriorated. He also established a seminary for graduate scholars to train to become a Mufti. Faqih al-Millah gives the credit for his skills and proficiency in fatawa writing to his spiritual mentor, Sadr al-Shari'ah Shaykh Amjad 'Ali A'zami' rahmatullahi ta'ala alayhi.

Despite being dedicated to teaching his students sacred knowledge and issuing fatawa, Faqih al-Millat also authored numerous books with the aim of propagating and spreading the teachings and dotrine of the Ahl al-Sunnah w'al Jama'ah; as preached and upheld by the great Gnostic, mufassir, muhaddith, mujaddid - Imam Ahmad Rida Khan al-Qadiri, alayhi ar-rahman. Some of his works being :

---Guldasta e Mathnawi,
---Ma'arif al-Qur'an,
---Anwar al-Shariat,
---Hajj o Ziyarat,
---Muhaqqiqanah Faysalah,
---Daruri Masa'il,
---Anwar al-Hadith,
---Ahkam e Niyyat,
---'Ilm al-Qur'an,
---Ta'zim al-Nabi, salla Allahu 'alayhi wa Sallam,
---Bad Madhhabon se Rishtay,
---Ojhdi ka Masala,
---Bagh e Fadak awr Hadith e Qirtas,
---Ghayr Muqallideen ka Farayb,
---Fiqhi Pahayliyan (Aja'ib al-Fiqh),
---Nurani Ta'lim (in 6 parts),
---Khutbat e Muharram (Transl. as Madina to Karbala),
---Sayyid al-Awliya (a concise biography of Shaykh Ahmad Kabir al-Rifa'i, rahimahullah),
---Fatawa Fayd al-Rasul (in 2 Volumes),
---Al-Fatawa al-Barkatiyyah,
---Fatawa Faqih al-Millat (in 2 Volumes),
---Fatawa Markaz Taribiyat e Ifta (in 2 Volumes).

Besides teaching and writing Faqih al-Millah also travelled to different parts of the country to deliver sermons and speeches in order to promulgate the doctrine of the Ahl al-Sunnah w'al Jama'ah. Ahsan al-Ulema, Shaykh Hasan al-Qadiri al-Barkati [d.1416h] rahimahullah, conferred Faqih al-Millah with Khilafah in the Qadiri, Barkati silsila (order).